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If I have a find bar (command-f) open in two applications, and I change the text in one, the text in the other changes to match as soon as I tab over to the second application. Is there a way to turn this off so that the find bar is only populated by things I type into it?

For example:

1. Command-f in Sublime Text for "variable_name"
2. Command-f in Chrome for "some_type"
3. Tab back to Sublime
4. Find bar in Sublime now says "some_type" 
     (and Sublime auto-scrolls to the next mention of some_type)
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  • It is usually called something like the find pasteboard or shared find clipboard, and there is an NSFindPboard constant for it in the NSPasteBoard class. There is a similar question at Ask Different, but it doesn't have any solutions at the moment.
    – Lri
    Aug 16, 2013 at 12:57
  • Thanks. More googling digs up this post that suggests it's impossible to disable.
    – A Kaptur
    Aug 19, 2013 at 3:30

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